After talking with a friend about it he said that in our area, heavily light polluted Kentucky, you cant have both imaging that requires high walls, and dob viewing that needs low walls, from one structure. If I build my walls low enough for a dob, I can forget about good imaging when the time comes. If I build the walls high enough for imaging, dob viewing will be hard to do in the box ive created.
*sigh.
He suggested since i dont own anything but a dob for now, make a concrete box in the middle, like 2'x2', and just set my dob on it for now, and then one day when Im ready to start imaging, buy me a steel pier and anchor it to that same concrete box.
The wife thinks we should partition off a section of this area already boxed in, like on the North end, and make it a warm room, and scoot the concrete box/pad thingie a little closer to the south wall, since it will drop down anyway.
She also said why not go get those floating foundation blocks I first mentioned and make me a little dob deck right off the south side of this obs with a little ramp i can just wheel my dob over to, that way i could leave the dob outside in the obs and just wheel it over when I wanted to.
Of course, she still thinks we ought to use that area that the roof will roll-off on top of that will just be sitting there unused, and make that area my warm room.
Lots of ideas happening now and I dont know which way to go.
On top of all this, the pool motor died and i had to go buy another one yesterday!
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